In this second look at the forthcoming prequel chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Samuel L. Jackson’s (considerably de-aged) Nick Fury explains the galactic landscape to her.

She’s a Kree, and the bad guys – presumably not all old ladies – are the Skrulls, with the two warring races battling it out on Earth.

Brie Larson in Captain Marvel (Credit: Marvel/Disney)

However, as the trailer details, she wasn’t always thus. Found by the Kree following a ‘near-death’ experience, she was taken to their home world and made ‘one of us’, explains Annette Bening’s ‘mother’ character (thus far unnamed).

Given some kind of Kree blood transfusion, she’s made ‘stronger, superior’, before encountering Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos the Untamed, the shapeshifter who’s leading the assault on Earth.

There’s a lot riding on this movie.

New Captain Marvel poster (Disney)

After the post-credits scene in Avengers: Infinity War, in which Nick Fury pages Captain Marvel in the last frame of the movie, it’s thought that she’ll be the might that will take on (and presumably vanquish) Thanos.